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“Like Making Elon Musk the Head of the FAA”—Meet Acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reeling this week after a major leadership upheaval. Its director Susan Monarez—a microbiologist confirmed by the Senate to lead the agency—was unexpectedly fired just weeks into her tenure. Monarez reportedly clashed with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over what she described as […]

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Trump’s Mental Health Plan: Defund, Incarcerate, Disappear

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When President Donald Trump tries to defend his mass deportation agenda, he claims, without evidence, that immigrants are entering the United States from “mental institutions and insane asylums.”  When he wants to insult people—like Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Mo.), or former Vice President Kamala Harris—he calls them “low IQ,” “deranged,” and […]

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Trump Rewards MAGA Attack Dog Attorney General With FBI Post

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When Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was sworn into office in 2023, then-Gov. Mike Parson joked that he had extracted a “blood oath” from the new appointee not to run for higher office too quickly. The state’s previous two attorneys general—Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt—had both used the position as an interim step to the […]

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Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender

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The suspect in the mass shooting responsible for killing two school-aged children and wounding 17 others at a Catholic church in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified as having changed her legal name in 2020 to reflect her identity as female. “Minor child identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification,” […]

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The “Mini-Trump” Attacking Lisa Cook Had Paperwork Problems of His Own

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Donald Trump is attempting to seize control of the historically independent Federal Reserve by firing one of its leaders. Not the chair, Jerome Powell—at least not yet. Instead, the president has set his sights on another member of the Fed’s board: economist Lisa Cook, who Trump claimed in a Monday night social media post had […]

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“The Most Transparent Administration In History” Refuses to Say Who’s Behind Their Batshit Social Media

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The way the U.S. government communicates online has shifted dramatically since Donald Trump returned to power on January 20. Before then, for instance, it wasn’t likely that the official White House Twitter/X account would tweet “Go woke, go broke” over a cartoon of the president meant to look like the (original, newly restored) Cracker Barrel […]

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LaMonica McIver and the “Lock Her Up” President

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Depending on whom you ask, the United States is either sliding into fascism or smack in the middle of it. Either way, it’s not good. But should future historians attempt to identify when this fascist crackdown kicked off in earnest, they may settle on Rep. LaMonica McIver. In May, the Justice Department charged the New […]

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LaMonica McIver and the “Lock Her Up” President

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Depending on whom you ask, the United States is either sliding into fascism or smack in the middle of it. Either way, it’s not good. But should future historians attempt to identify when this fascist crackdown kicked off in earnest, they may settle on Rep. LaMonica McIver. In May, the Justice Department charged the New […]

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This Artist Painted Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Now She’s Documenting His Immigration Crackdown.

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In June, Isabelle Brourman took a sketch board and her press pass to immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City. She’d heard that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were arresting people after their hearings, and she wanted to document it. Court security wouldn’t let her inside. Brourman, a 32-year-old mixed-media […]

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They Survived Katrina and Started to Rebuild. Now Trump’s Cuts May Flood Them Out Again.

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After Hurricane Katrina and its related flooding inundated much of New Orleans in 2005, residents of a large Vietnamese community in the Algiers neighborhood were some of the first to return and rebuild. But 20 years later, their neighborhood is still prone to flooding, especially during hurricane season. And, like much of the city, the […]

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Breaking Down the White House’s Lies and Distortions About Crime in DC

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This story was originally published by The Watch, Radley Balko’s substack publication, to which you can subscribe here. So let’s get this out of the way first: As I wrote in a previous post, Donald Trump’s “takeover” of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery. It’s a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism. It has nothing to […]

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Kristi Noem Waives Environmental Laws to Build Trump’s Wall Through a Wildlife Refuge

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday that Secretary Kristi Noem has waived the protections of the Endangered Species Act and other federal statutes to “ensure the expeditious construction” of the border wall through the Lower Rio […]

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